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"I can't get that Candypants song 'Nerdy Boy' out of my head," Andrew said on the bus this morning. "It should be number one for a billion years, it's so good."
I grinned. It's normal — excruciatingly tediously so — for Andrew to announce to the world what is playing on his brain radio, but further commentary like this is rather unusual.
He sang his favorite bit:
The recent popularity of geekiness has produced so much geek adulation in various media that I'm beginning to feel as distant from it as I am from the things that were cool in the first place: cars, sports, TV shows, whatever they are. But this line was just perfect: it wasn't just a cliché, a stranger seemed to have peeked through my curtains and written about me ... and what more could you ask of a pop song?
(Andrew's right: it is good. Go listen; I'll wait.)
So strong is my identification with that line that it's probably responsible for what I said next: "You just like it because it's about you," I teased.
Andrew protested. "It's about the other kind of geek, the skinny lesser-spotted kind."
I thought about this. True, the lyrics to proclaim, at one point, "I'd like to bite his pencil neck" ... I thought about it some more. "But they're not less spotted. You're always bragging about how you don't get spots."
"No, it's the lesser-spotted geek," he said, emphasizing the space between and combinations of the words so that somehow, even my eight-o'clock-in-the-morning brain got it.
"Oh! 'Lesser-Spotted Geek.' "
He nodded. "I," he continued, "am the Wild Mountain Geek!"
Yeah, I think I'll keep him.
I grinned. It's normal — excruciatingly tediously so — for Andrew to announce to the world what is playing on his brain radio, but further commentary like this is rather unusual.
He sang his favorite bit:
He thinks DNA is prettyHe hasn't told me that's his favorite bit, but I know it is. The Wondermints have a song that mentions the prettiness of DNA, and the Wondermints, though a perennial favorite in this house, are not exactly the kind of band that get referenced in other people's songs. And the third line was the first thing to catch my attention when Andew first played the song, and enough to make me love it immediately.
CGI makes him giddy
He'll only listen to the mono version of 'Surf City'
The recent popularity of geekiness has produced so much geek adulation in various media that I'm beginning to feel as distant from it as I am from the things that were cool in the first place: cars, sports, TV shows, whatever they are. But this line was just perfect: it wasn't just a cliché, a stranger seemed to have peeked through my curtains and written about me ... and what more could you ask of a pop song?
(Andrew's right: it is good. Go listen; I'll wait.)
So strong is my identification with that line that it's probably responsible for what I said next: "You just like it because it's about you," I teased.
Andrew protested. "It's about the other kind of geek, the skinny lesser-spotted kind."
I thought about this. True, the lyrics to proclaim, at one point, "I'd like to bite his pencil neck" ... I thought about it some more. "But they're not less spotted. You're always bragging about how you don't get spots."
"No, it's the lesser-spotted geek," he said, emphasizing the space between and combinations of the words so that somehow, even my eight-o'clock-in-the-morning brain got it.
"Oh! 'Lesser-Spotted Geek.' "
He nodded. "I," he continued, "am the Wild Mountain Geek!"
Yeah, I think I'll keep him.